Re: FLASH: Flash to TV/Video

[marcel-k]

on 7/10/00 2:40 PM, Till Steinmetz at

listmailhandlanger [dot] de

 wrote:


> Hi,

> 

>> I did and it works fine (interlacing and all) exept for one thing: I want to

>> overlay my Flash graphics and animations on some videofootage. The problem

>> is transparency/alpha channel. I don't get transparent backgrounds when i

>> Import the swf or QuickTime in my Video-software. Not in AfterEffects and

>> not in FinalCutPro.

>> 

>> Anybody soved this problem?

> 

> The only way to export transparent video (background=transparent) footage

> is to export the animation as a PNG-Sequence. After Effects (4.0 / 4.1) can

> import PNG sequences with Alpha-Channel. Mov and Avi Export have an

> "include alpha" option which is ignored, dont know if this is a bug...

> 

> Bye,

> Till

> 



Right, i think it's a bug though.


By the way 1: FinalCutPro imports .swf files but even then the background is

not transparant! isn't that odd?


By the way 2:

We can also export as 32bit PICT sequence to preserve the Alpha Channel.


Thank you!



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